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Is it worth grading Alakazam?

JP: Secret of the Lakes

Yes — if it grades 10. Even a 9 profits at current prices. 9s are pooled across graders here — PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure.
RAW NOW$12.22TCGplayer market
PSA 10 SOLD$580.008 completed sales
Grade 9 SOLD$64.618 completed sales · mixed graders
IF IT GRADES 10+$543after $25 fee

A raw Alakazam from JP: Secret of the Lakes currently sells for about $12.22. Across 8 completed eBay sales, a PSA 10 has a median price of $580.00. After a $25 grading fee, a 10 would net roughly $542.78. But a Grade 9 (mixed graders) has a median of $64.61 across 8 sales — which works out to +$27.39 after fees. Even a 9 profits at current prices. 9s are pooled across graders here — PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure.

Every grade, with the sales behind it

GRADEMEDIANSALES ON RECORD
PSA10$580.008 sales
CGC10$73.004 sales
GRADE9$64.618 sales

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Every figure on this page is an observed number. Raw prices come from TCGplayer; graded medians are completed eBay sales, shown with the sale count behind each one. We don't estimate, model, or fill in gaps — if a grade has no sales on record, it isn't listed. Grading outcomes are not guaranteed: most raw cards do not come back a 10, which is exactly why the 9-grade number is on this page. Where PriceCharting has no PSA-9-only figure we show its pooled 9 — PSA, BGS, CGC and SGC together — and label it as such rather than call it a PSA 9.